Lathing device.



W. W. PALMER.

LATHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION IILED 111:0. 11, 1012.

1,068,923, Patented July29, 1913.

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STATl-Eb PATEN T WINAN'I W. PALMER, OF NEW YORK; N. Y., ASSIGNQR 03E"ONE-HALF T01. IRVIN PALMER, DIE-NEW YORK, N. Y;

LATI-IING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 191-3.

Applicationfiled December 11, 1912. SerliaLNo. 736;10 7,

Tomi whom it. mayconcem Be it knownthatl, WIN-ANT; PALME a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of the city of. New York, Tottenyi1le, bor- This invention relates to. wood working machinery and has.particular reference to apparatus for: use i i-applying. common lathsin. building; construction.

plied at uniform, distances apart so that the plastering operation will.be more satisfactory and with less waste of plaster than is 1 usuallythe fact.

' to: prov de a meanswherebya considerable proportion of thelathing-openation may be j performed by boys or-mechanics of less skilli than are' usually employed; for .thispurpose. 11

The foregoingand' other objects of the .in-

yention will hereinafter: be more iiully .describedand claimed: andillustrated: in, the drawings accompanying this. specificationin whichlike characters of reference indicate conrespondingpants in all theviews, and in which? plurality of; laths in; readiness for applicationto a wall;;;Fig.- 2isa vertical sectional detail showing one of theuprights of wall to which lat-hs have been applied.- andupon whichanother set ;orpanel of laths. is being applied; by means of.thisimprovement,;

1Fig..:'6 is plan view 051113116; same Fig. '7 is a tnansversesectionrsubst intially ion the Brie of F g MndwEig. 8-isa per pectiveView of one of thesli dcs.

In carrying out this invention in apreferred. embodiment, I provide a;frame 10 comprising a, pairof rails ll spaced at any suitable distance,according. to thenumber of laths which areidesired .to behandled, at onetiine, and held in such spaced: relation by means. of, end'bars 1,2 and13; As. herein shown, thedevice isdesigned for the ac f commodationofpas many asten laths at one time, andgin-order for thelaths. to beprop; .erly allned atoneend thebar-13is wider thanthe other and extendsabove thermain V V plane of the frame 10, as shown in Fig. 1. Among theobjects of the invention is to provide a device whereby. a considerable;number'of laths may .be arranged; in rela- 5 titre position, ;pnoperlyspacechready for, 3p 1 .plication'to the-studding, whereby the lathsmaybe applied with accuracy andrapidity.

A, funther objectof .the invention is to provide a meanswhereby-lathe,may be,-a,p-

The frame 10 maybe yariously constructed, but I prefer toriorm the sidemembers or rails 11 with hingesor joints, as indicated at 14c,forconyenience in folding and'trans porting the frame when not inuse. Inanranging thefr-ame for actualuse, .the rails will be extended; as shownin. Rig. 3, and each of ;t hem will; be locked atits. joint by means ofa-Ihook 15 .and then the .endibars 12 and. 13 will be secured, in, placeby detach able nuts 16, making the frame into a sub- 5 stantially rigidstructure. The inner upper A, still. further objBQhbo-f the invention.is

time in connection with the frame 10 for the reception and temporaryholding, in proper spacedv relation. of a plurality of r .laths 1 9, Asmanyof the holders as maybe Figure 1 is a perspective view indicatingthe. appea ance at a pre er ed emb m of: the inventionin position to;receiye a desired, preferably two orthree 1 of them, are

slipped into the sockets 17 of the frame,

each of the holdersspanning the space between, the rails 11'. As hereinillustrated, each of the holders comprisesa longitudinal body 20 hayingalongitudinal channel 21 in which-,is placed; a: tubular memb er, 22-.com ;prisi-nga. pair of telescopic-sections within which. is housed, acoiled spring 23. One

.end ot the spring is, secured adjacent one endof; the member 20 bymeans of a pin 243 which likewise serves to. hold the adjacent. end ofthe tubular member 22. The othenend, of thesp ns s ured toe shan 25which- .is connected to the adjacent. end

of the tubularrnember and extends inwardly into the channel 21 troniahead block26.

The channel 21, except as hereinafter set forth, is open on the sideopposite the main portion of the body 20, and a pair of guides 27 areconnected to the body at the edges of said open channel. The head block26 is slidable along said guides 27 longitudinally of the holder, andwhen drawn toward the adjacent end of the holder the member 22 isextended and the spring 23 placed under tension, the tendency of thespring being to retain the two parts of the member 22 in telescoped orcontracted position. At the opposite end of the holder there is provideda hanger 28 having an outwardly projecting finger 29 at its outer endand an in wardly projecting finger 30 at its opposite end, and thehanger as a whole being movable at right angles to the principal axis ofthe holder. A spring 31 bears at one end against the inwardly projectingfinger 30 and at its other end against the inner face of a fixedabutment 32, whereby the hanger is maintained normally in the positionshown in Fig. 5. The abutment 32 has a fixed finger 33 extendingoutwardly parallel to the end of the holder and serves, in addition tobeing a support for the lower-- most lath, as a reinforcement or supportfor the slidable hanger 28. Between the head block 26rand the abutment32 are arranged a series of slides 34. Each of said slides is guidedbetween the aforesaid guides and carries an outwardly projecting fingeror stud 35 of any suitable form and of a length substantially equaltothe thickness of an ordinary lath and of a width, in the direction ofthe axis of the holder, corre sponding to the space desired to be leftbetween adjacent laths. The length of each slide 84 or the normaldistance between the centers of the adjacent fingers 35 is slightly lessthan the minimum width of the lath. The slides 34 and the head block 26are slidably connected to or between the guides 27 in any suitablemanner, but as herein shown, said slidable members are provided withlateral or edge rooves 34 and 26 respectively, into whic h tongues 27project from said guides. The slides, therefore, have free movementrelatively to each other and to the holder body except as restrainedfrom such movement by the head block 26 acted upon by the spring 23.

Vith the frame arranged as shown in Fig. 3 and supported on any suitablehorizontal support, two or more of the holders 18 will be put in placein suitable pairs of sockets 17 with all of the head blocks at the sameend or adjacent the same rail 11. The operator will then place upon thedevice a series of laths 19, placing them singly between the severalslides 34 and also between the abutment finger 33 and the adjacent slidefinger 35 and also between the head block 26 and the finger 35 adjacentthereto.

Any-

suitable means such as pins 36 will be used to secure the laths inconnection with the several head blocks 26, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and5. When the holders have thus been filled with laths, the laths with theholders secured thereto and holding the laths in spaced position will bepicked up bodily from the frame and placed in position adj acent thestudding with the fingers 29 engaging over the last previously appliedlath.. WVith the hangers 28 thus supporting the new series of laths atone edge, the operator will swing the whole upwardly against thestudding around the hangers 28 as an axis, bringing the same into theposition shown in Fig. 2. He will then secure the same in position byany suitable means or proceed at once to nail the laths to the studding,beginning preferably at the uppermostlath. This lath being nailed inplace will, by virtue of the pins 36, hold the entire series in placeuntil-they are all secured. The holders then are each removed by.withdrawing the pin 36, and then by pulling the holder outward from thewall suflioiently far bodily to put the spring 31 under compression'thehanger will be extended so as to permit the finger 29 to be withdrawnfrom between the adjacent laths by a downward circular motion of theholder. 'If desired, the pin 36 instead of being replaced in' holdingposition may be temporarily placed in a transverse hole 36 in the headblock. In the meantime another set of holders may be supplied with lathsupon the same frame so that the lather maybe kept supplied with sets oflaths properly spaced by the holders, and no time will be lost by him inattempt ing to properly space the individual laths upon the wall in theordinary manner. 7

The several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materialsand the relative sizes and proportions and also the details ofconstruction'may be varied to a considerable extent without departingfrom the spirit of the invention hereinafter claimed. Having thusdescribed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent 1. In a device of the character set forth,

the combinatiion of a horizontal stationary 2. In a lath holder, thecombination of a 7 main longitudinal member, a hanger 28 at one end ofsaid member and movable laterally with respect thereto, a stationaryfinger 33 adjacent the hanger, and a series of individual lath holdinstuds cooperatin With said main member, the thickness of eac stud beingsubstantially equivalent to the combined thickness of said hanger andfinger, whereby the laths being applied Will be equally spaced from oneanother and from the last previously applied lath with which said hangercooperates, said hanger being movable outwardly beyond said finger for10 the purpose of releasing the hanger.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' WVINANT W. PALMER.

WVitnesses:

GEO. L. BEELER, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

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